Installing SuSE 10.2 from DVD

On the welcome screen
- select Installation
- enter the boot parameter vga=ask
- press <RETURN> to start installation
- at the prompt press <RETURN> to get list of video modes
- in the following list of video modes select option 6.
Select US english as language,
select new installation,
select Europe, Germany, hardware clock set to UTC,
select KDE as desktop,
modify suggested partition
continue installation.

After the automatic reboot

enter a wellknown password for root,
enter proper hostname, mpe-garching.mpg.de as domain, disable DHCP update,
for the network configuration
- enable SSH in the firewall options,
- configure the first network interface
  - static address setup
  - proper IP address, subnet mask 255.255.255.0
  - proper hostname
  - domain mpe-garching.mpg.de
  - name server 130.183.70.10 and 130.183.72.185
  - default gateway 130.183.130.1
test the network interface,
for the online update configuration
- select configure now (be patient!)
- BUT skip actual update
- register all additional installation source (again be patient!)
select local user authentication
skip adding local user, ignore warning
accept hardware configuration

Deactivating ZMD and friends

Using the root account:

rpm -e zmd libzypp-zmd-backend sqlite-zmd rug zen-updater

Updating the system

Using the root account:

zypper update

Then reboot to active zypper update.

After the reboot start the update again (and be patient):

zypper update

Reboot again.

Install additional software packages

zypper install -y kernel-source kernel-syms
zypper install -y tkdiff xemacs xv
zypper install -y gcc gcc-c++
zypper install -y bison flex ncurses-devel
zypper install -y iftop

Add new software package sources

Activate all remote package sources, disable local DVD package source using the command

/sbin/yast2 inst_source

Then add suser-guru and packman

zypper -v sa http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/10.2/ guru102
zypper -v sa http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/10.2/ packman102

Graphics driver

Nvidia

Add following software repository

zypper -v sa http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2 Nvidia

Depending on the kernel (see the uname -a command) install one of these packages:

zypper install -y nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default
or
zypper install -y nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-bigsmp

Then install

zypper install -y x11-video-nvidiaG01

To configure the graphics driver

sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia

For more detailed information have a look at http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html

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